Honorary Doctors

The list of honorary degrees includes persons awarded their honorary degree by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and its predecessors the Norwegian Institute of Technology, (honorary degrees 1935–1967) and the University of Trondheim (honorary degrees 1968–1995).

Important scientific contribution or outstanding work for the benefit of science, or outstanding work for the benefit of art or culture, are conditions for the appointment of honorary doctors.

2018

James E. Young, dr.h.c. Distinguished University Professor Emeritus and Founding Director, Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

2017

Charis Thompson, dr.h.c. Chancellor's Professor and Chair of Gender & Women's Studies, and Associate Director and a former founding director of the Science, Technology and Society Center at the University of California Berkeley.

Bruce Alan Beutler, dr.h.c. Professor, Director of the Center for the Genetics of Host Defense at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2011, shared with Jules A. Hoffmann and Ralph M. Steinman).

2014

Suresh Raj Sharma, dr.h.c. Former president and founder of Kathmandu University, Nepal.

1976

1972

Professor John H. Argyris, dr. techn. h.c. Professor of Aeronautical Engineering, Imperial College, London and Director of the Institute for Statics and Dynamics of Aerospace Structures at the University of Stuttgart, Germany.